Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-13
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Provisions Of the Substitute Auti-N0r.
men Bill as Passed by the House
Yesterday.
A Formal Agreement is Reached by the
Conference OF the Two Houses on the
Electoral Count Bill.
ANTI-MORMON BILL.


WASHINGTON, Jan. I2.-The anti-Mor-
mon bill as passed by The house to-day
/ by the loption of fuckers substitute for
Edmunds' senate bill. makes the lawful
husband or wife of any person prosecuted
for bigamy, polYgamy or unlawful cohabi-
tatiOn, competent witness against the
accused, and further provides tor the
registration of all marriages, making it 4
misdemeanor for any person to
violate the provisions relative
to such registration 1t annuls
all territorial laws providing for the iden
LITIGATION of the votes of electors ct any
election, and also all laws comforting on
territorial courts the power to determine
divorce cases, and abclishes woman
suffrage in the territory of Utah. Pen
alties are prescribed for unlawful inter-
course and polygamy Is defined as
marriage between one person of one sex
AID more than one person of another sex,
and shall be a felony. The financial
corporation known as the Church of
Latter-Day Saints and Perpetual Emf
grations Fund Company are dissolved, and
the attorney general is directed to wind
them up by process of court, and all
laws for the organization of militia of
the territory are annulled.
PolygamiSS are made Ineligible to vote,
and the test oath, as prescribed to all
persons desiring to vote, that they will
obey the laws of the United States aud
especially the laws in respect to crimes
defined in this and the original Edmund's
act. The bills provides for the imme-
date appointment by the presi-
dent of all judges and
selectmen of the country and the
probate courts, and by the governor of
all justices of the peace, sheriffs and con-
stables and other county and district Off
GERS. The bill as amended by the adop-
ton of the substitute will now be trans
mitted to the senate for action by that
body.
ELECTORAL COUNT BILL.
WASHINGTON, Jan II The conference
on the part of the two houses of congres SIS
to-day reached formal agreement on the
electoral count bill and expect to pre-
sent their report tomorrow. Ghe
amendments of the house to the bill are
substantially adopted by r." conference
and the principal changes made in the
text are in the nature of more definite
statements touching the exclusive rig Is of
the states to determine what electoral re-
turns shall be presented to congress. What
will be known as the Oates amendment
was also accepted by the senate con-
ferees. The effect of this amendment is
to strike out of the senate bill the clause
which allowed the president of the SEN
ate to announce the name of the success
full candidate, and to contine his functions
to the mere announcement of the state of
the vote, which will be regarded IS sui
ficient to indicate the result.
VISITS RESOLUTION.
WASHINGTON, Jan. - Senator Vest
to-day offered the following resolution,
which, on an objection, was laid over TIL
to morrow: That the secretary of the
treasury furnish to this body complete
statement, by ltemized account, of
all the money paid out for or on account,
directly or indirectly, OF prosecutions of
criminal causes in the state courts by
federal officials of the department of JUS
tice, the department of the interior and
the secret service bureau of the treasury
department, from the LIST of July, 1869,
to December !, 1886, together with list
of such officials or agents or employees en-
gagged in such prosecutions, and
the amount each received, and
for what specific service it
was paid, and to state by
what authority of law such proceedings
have been carried on and payments made,
and what pecuniary interests or vested
rights the United States had connected
with such prosecutions in said state
courts.
TO REIMBURSE THE FREEDMEN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. u Comptroller
Trenholm to-day presented to the house
committee on banking and currency the
draft ola bill approprleting 100000 to
reimburse depositors OF the Freedman's
Bank, and made an argument in support
of the measure.
TEXAS PETITION.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 1.-THE petition of
Stephen A. Hsckworth, real estate dealer,
James L. Moore, merchant, and Carl
Schultze, ex-district attorney of Washing
ton county. Tex, and editor Of the Bren-
ham aat.Zeitung, presented to-day by